by Josephine Matyas | Jul 8, 2021 | Places to See
Crossing the Thousand Islands Bridge from eastern Ontario into upper New York State is akin to having a road trip menu spread out before me. If we want a rustic experience where we can commune with nature, we turn east and head for the beautiful Adirondacks. If we’re...
by Malcolm Callister | Jul 2, 2021 | Places to See
It was October as we drove north in our fifth wheel trailer. North from Vancouver to the Tsutswecw (Roderick Haig-Brown) Provincial Park, British Columbia, to experience the Adams River, Sockeye Salmon run. We had come to witness some 34-million Sockeye salmon arrive...
by Malcolm Callister | Jun 1, 2021 | Places to See
The Attack Came with No Warning…You are standing with a small group of campers, at the Hartt Island RV Resort, waiting, staring into the distance on the edge of the clifftop, 20 metres above New Brunwick’s Saint John River, on a warm, clear evening in July. “There,” a...
by Josephine Matyas | May 14, 2021 | Places to See
Mitch Carter gets misty eyed when he talks about the De Havilland Beaver, a workhorse aircraft that is almost three times his age. Mitch is a “floor ranger” (a docent) at the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre in Sault Ste. Marie. The Soo, as the city is known, was...
by Josephine Matyas | Apr 13, 2021 | Places to See
As the pandemic stretches on, it’s as important as ever to look close to home for travel opportunities. Travelling by RV — we describe it to friends as our “rolling self-isolation unit” — does give us more control, but it is still important to minimize risks. Enjoying...
by Alan Davy | Mar 8, 2021 | Places to See
Robert Service nailed it with the lines in his poem, “The Spell of the Yukon.” There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land-oh it beckons and beckons. And I want to go back and I will. We toured the majestic Yukon by motorhome and vowed to return and...